“Princeton executed their half-court play in the second half when it really counted,” Sullivan said.

Despite the pair of setbacks this weekend, the Crimson said it plans to press on in the hope of closing out its season with 16 wins.

The school record is 17, set during the 1996-97 season.

“We’re definitely not going to throw away the rest of the games,” Harvey said. “We’ve worked too hard all season to throw it away now.”

Penn 78, Harvard 51

PHILADELPHIA, Penn.—Down only seven points at the half, the Crimson defense fell apart in the second half to Penn, losing 78-51. After holding the Quakers to just 36 percent shooting in the first half, the Quakers lit up the Crimson at a 64-percent clip in the second half.

Penn opened the game with a 10-3 run, leading comfortably until Harvey hit a three with 13:37 left in the half to keep the Crimson in the game. Harvey’s 19 points were a game high, and he was the only Crimson player to score in double figures.

In fact, no other Crimson player finished with more than six points.

“[Harvey] got his numbers in the second half. We lost him a couple of times. But his baskets weren’t as timely as in the first game [at Lavietes],” Penn Coach Fran Dunphy said.

The teams traded baskets to round out the first half, and the Crimson entered the locker room down only 25-18, despite shooting just 30 percent.

However, the second half was a much different story, as Penn shooters found open outside shots the entire half. Quaker guards Andrew Toole and Jeff Schiffner combined to hit four-of-seven three-point shots in the second half. Both players finished the game with 17 points.

“Offensively, we couldn’t play a whole lot better than we did in the second half,” Dunphy said.

In the first 10 minutes of the second half, the Quakers hit five three-pointers, opening up a 50-33 lead. After two free throws by Prasse-Freeman closed the gap to 13 with 8:48 left, Penn went on a 16-0 run over the next four minutes to blow open the game.

“We had no answers for their streaks of momentum, the likes of which I hadn’t seen since the days of [Matt] Maloney and [Jerome] Allen,” Sullivan said.

The Crimson never got into its rhythm offensively, consistently shooting itself in the foot with 18 turnovers.